VMWare host best practice to configure NTP server to PDCe or external source

We have a PDCe that all our internal environment gets it's time from. It happens to be a VM and one time the NTP client on my host stopped running and the time on this PDCe was off and started handing out faulty time.

I am wondering how to avoid this situation? I have my PDCe setup to NTP to time.gov but it still got the time it appears from the host. What are the best practices and how do you have it setup?

Excellent! Yes I found the first article and have the DC setup properly but was concerned as my hosts are getting time from the PDC that is getting time from outside and when the service stopped on one host it was really ugly and I want to make sure I'm setting it up properly to avoid.

I setup the Client, Parameter to NTP, but on the NTP server will it appear as follows or should there be no number 1.2.3:
1.pool.ntp.org,0x1 2.pool.ntp.org,0x1 3.pool.ntp.org,0x1

We have read, that's it's etiquitte that, only a single device from your LAN should contact an external NTP server.

I cannot remember where I read that...

but we some clients also use an NTP Virtual Server as a time server, which fetches the time from a random set of servers, to maintain accuracy, and then clients set ALL LAN devices to this NTP Virtual Server (or physical server on the LAN!).

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